Places kydwelch14 Wants to Go

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

Over 120 years ago, the original boardgame that inspired Monopoly was invented in this small Illinois town.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A commemoration of over 150 of St. Louis's favorite sons and daughters.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

On the shores of Lake Kalamazoo, a plaque marks a fictional event where an island nation ran aground.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

The final resting place of the hero of Air Florida Flight 90 known as "the man in the water."