Places shell42 Wants to Go

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This is one really big nut.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.