Places isgoe1976 Wants to Go

A statue that would be at home in Rome can instead be found in the heart of Norway's oldest city.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

Remnants of a forgotten ballpark where legend and infamy intersect.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.