Places summermaddux Wants to Go

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

The largest riverfront opening cave in the Ozarks.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.