Places greatgazoo19 Wants to Go

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

An exhibit tracing Japan's cinematic history in an often-overlooked national museum.

The home and studio of one of Japan's most avant-garde artists is now a museum showcasing his surreal works.

A small shrine run entirely by vending machines.

A grand Buddhist temple with Indian influences.

Various accidents and illnesses fell upon the developers who tried to remove these historic trees.

A tiny street lined with eleven distinct Tanuki statues, each representing a different wish.

A museum housed in a stunning Rockefeller-funded medical institute building from the 1930s.

All 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac are depicted in anthropomorphized deity form.

A bizarre object of worship believed to grant wishes to those who tie it up with a rope.