Places heatherrowephr Wants to Go

Ever wanted to can Spam?

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.

This hidden treasure is the world’s oldest active geocache.

In this rural town square, a unique statue honors the inventor of the microchip.

A plaque recognizes "unquestionably the most widely published photograph in rural electrification history."

In the aftermath of the murder of six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a memorial was constructed to remember all the teachers, administrators and staff who lost their lives.

This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.

This bird statue was created to mark the site of a radio transmitter.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

An epic statue dedicated to the memory of the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments of the U.S. Army

This roadside prairie Statue of Liberty replica is one of the foremost examples of the Boy Scouts of America's "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign.

Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.

See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.

A massive museum preserving the United States culture and the home of Abraham Lincoln's sleigh.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.