Places Joe Wants to Go

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The precise origins of this pink sandstone temple are unknown.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.