Places OiNeb Wants to Go

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.