Places lizsullivan Wants to Go

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

The world's only known button museum.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Historical structures and natural wonders await visitors to this preserve.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.