Places tallackel Wants to Go

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Balanced rock sculptures pay tribute to a murdered conservationist and his pioneer wife.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This room of wonder is full of relics, from knights in armor to rare works of art.

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.