Places ignimbrite Wants to Go

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.