Places jlb6394 Wants to Go

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The most extravagant car collection features a Batmobile, Liberace's mirror ball-ed Rolls Royce, and a stunt car from 'The Fast and the Furious.'

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This was once a hall in which a 16th-century royal banquet was hosted by King James VI of Scotland.