Places Michael K Wants to Go

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

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

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.