Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

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