Places Nicole Lee Wants to Go

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

He’s not from around here.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

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

A bust of the entertainer and politician sits in an alcove at the Palm Springs Airport.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .