Places Megan Wants to Go

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The World's Largest Bull.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

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

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

A stone face watches over the river.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...