Places maryn Wants to Go

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This double-arched masonry highway bridge is the only structure of its kind in Minnesota.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

In 2013, historians discovered a hidden room devoted to the art of making royals' hot chocolate.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.