Places pasharp1031 Wants to Go

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

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

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

A colorful public mural in San Antonio's West Side encourages students to stay in school.

A priceless work of art created by the saint's own blood sister hangs in a San Antonio basilica.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

The world's largest collection of ticks.