Places mjflanagan0 Wants to Go

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

Colorado's oldest church is now home to the largest handmade adobe labyrinth in the world.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.