Places mikswockam Wants to Go

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

Street names don't get more "late capitalism" than this.

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

New Hampshire's most beloved war hero lived out his retirement in this peaceful homestead.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo’s Scandinavian distributor.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.