Places Roxanne Holonitch Wants to Go

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.