Places MiguelO Wants to Go

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A little-known, yet charming glacial lagoon.

An entire home filled with over 3,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia in glass cases, walls, on Christmas trees, and even in the bathroom.

China's mysterious record-setting sleeping Buddha.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

An aromatic exploration of the rich history and flavors of this German town's famous gingerbread.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

Along a coast that sees the annual migration of humpback whales, a geological formation that takes the shape of a whale’s tail.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

Dedicated to a local cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and became an international symbol of peace.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

Designed to commemorate the king's coronation.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.