Places OddRoad Wants to Go

The world's largest wooden structure.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The picturesque southern city served as the zombie-filled town of Woodbury in 'The Walking Dead.'

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.