Places MissMaam Wants to Go

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Step back in time to explore 19th-century Appalachian life, from blacksmiths to Model Ts.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."