Places jfcianci Wants to Go

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This recipe is set in stone.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49