Places RoadUnraveled Wants to Go

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A replica that won't float away.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

A massive trilithon nicknamed "Stonehenge of the Pacific."

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"