Places rodneyfrieden Wants to Go

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

These eyes bring a smile to all who cruise past their watchful gaze.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.