Places randywoakes Wants to Go

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.