Places shawnvboyle Wants to Go

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.