Places MFB Wants to Go

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This restored colonial house was once home to the botanist responsible for bringing avocados to the U.S.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.