Places jariris Wants to Go

This cave column thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is rightly named for one of the most colorful park rangers in history.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

This is one really big nut.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

A scenic natural bridge with a creek running underneath.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

This soaring sculpture and Sioux Falls landmark represents the leap of faith taken to make one's dreams come true.

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

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.