Places saraeileen Wants to Go

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

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.