Places Taffodil Wants to Go

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.