Places opaellunea Wants to Go

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

An unusual resting place built into the hill with an amazing view of Lake Como.

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.