Places JoeBenSimo Wants to Go

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An urban laboratory.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.