Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.