Places mvalspeed Wants to Go

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Where the oil industry began.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The only international border marker within the United States.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.