Places NG3894 Wants to Go

Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.

Named for a prominent scout and explorer, this Wyoming state park encompasses a replica of an 1840s trading post, a 19th-century Army outpost, and early 20th-century automobile lodgings.