Places Sarah Finley Wants to Go

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

The final resting place of the hero of Air Florida Flight 90 known as "the man in the water."

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

The van that carried William Least-Heat Moon through the journey documented in the book 'Blue Highways' sits in the Mizzou archeological museum's storage.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

The only museum in the world dedicated to the history of sprint car racing, next to one of the country's most historic dirt tracks.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This simple stone monument honors a 19th-century tragedy.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

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