Places sophiejogregory Wants to Go

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

What is the Thing?

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This is one really big nut.