Places sharoneldertravels Wants to Go

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

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

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

These boots are made for selfies.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.