Places melissabollman Wants to Go

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.