Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.