Places monaharen Wants to Go

The railroad turning train travel into a cinematic, highly immersive experience has a fascinating connection to Game of Thrones.

An extraterrestrial-themed art exhibit makes the perfect place to crash-land while interacting with Andean culture and history.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

At 32 feet long, this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.