Places Figment Wants to Go

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.