Places sawilliams Wants to Go

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.