Places nomadicnadine Wants to Go

A home for Spain's version of the Tooth Fairy, hidden in an old gas company register.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.