Places mandaclarka Wants to Go

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.