Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The World's Largest Bull.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

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

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.