Places mikswockam Wants to Go

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

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

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A monument marking the first airplane flights in Japan hints at the dark history behind its peaceful park setting.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.