Places Edited by Jane Weinhardt Goldberg

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."