Places kaira Wants to Go

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.