Places snailhugs Wants to Go

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

A palatial art deco restroom.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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.