Places shell42 Wants to Go

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.