Places summermaddux Wants to Go

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

Open 24 hours, this self-serve sandwich spot specializes in egg salad sandwiches in a land that takes them very seriously.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Hidden in the jungle is a botanical ‘Barbapa dream’ art center in the Yucatan rainforest.

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

This century-old independent movie theater with an iconic Art Deco neon sign survived a devastating fire in 2016.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

This historic Art Deco building embellished with local tropical fruits had fallen into disrepair before a recent restoration.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.