Places Olivia Archie Wants to Go

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.