Places krispunke Wants to Go

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A phone booth crammed with books marks the path to a house-turned-bookstore in Alaska.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.

Many generations ago, it was said that one could find celestial splendor in a lush meadow not far from this very marker according to the lore of the fictional world Kcymaerxthaere.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.