Places Kate Rayne Wants to Go

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

Locals say the water level in this 1,200-year-old tank never goes down.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

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

Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.

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

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This sculpture is dedicated to Minnesota natives who served in combat.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.