Places sarakreep Wants to Go

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.