Places SamWandersEarth Wants to Go

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

An authentic recreation of a 19th-century museum for "working class folks."

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A 10-foot segment of the concrete barrier stands quietly on the campus.

Strange memorabilia held inside an unassuming library.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.