Places sherryolet Wants to Go

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.