Places m124 Wants to Go

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.