Places saramadsen Wants to Go

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

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

A trove of tiny treasures hidden within a Florida park.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.