Places Joe Wants to Go

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Restoring faith in humanity one pie at a time by selling stellar baked goods on an honor system.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

One of Gettysburg’s least visited battlefield memorials is off the beaten path, but worth a visit.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.