Places revans Wants to Go

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

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

Mine your own precious stones.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.