Places Jessica Leigh Hester Wants to Go

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

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