Places mellauri Wants to Go

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.