Places paleasfunk Wants to Go

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

The first model village in Brazil, built in 1917 to house workers at the jute sack factory.