Places karin66204 Wants to Go

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.