Places Tamara Thompson Wants to Go

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

One of Ohio's longest history books isn't made of paper—it's painted across the floodwall.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

It's a fantastical local history museum with real stories -- including the first, and longest operating, traffic signal.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The remnants of this Douglas fir predate Columbus's arrival in North America.

This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.