Places staceylanae Wants to Go

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

A quirky mishmash of Route 66 memorabilia and other throwbacks from the past.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A series of silhouettes that recall the great cattle drives of the 19th-century.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The owners of this Victorian-era estate say it’s still visited by the spirits of long-gone residents.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.