Places McCrisa Wants to Go

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

This single-track road rewards brave drivers with stunning Scottish scenery.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.