Places lavalamprey Wants to Go

Cities of the world and famous Thai monuments in minature.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

The headquarters of the prestigious World Food Prize celebrates the heroes in the fight against hunger, has no cafeteria.

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.