Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

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

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

This is Britain's one and only clock concealed in the pavement.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

A real-life hidden Easter Egg in New Hampshire's capital city

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Once the center of power for the region's various factories.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo’s Scandinavian distributor.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.