Places RCooper Wants to Go

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

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

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

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

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

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

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.