Places melaug24 Wants to Go

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

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

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.