Places taylorruddle1 Wants to Go

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Celebrating the cultural heritage of Kansas’s premier cowtown.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

In the heart of Little Sweden USA, a small gallery and museum pays tribute to a Swedish-born artist who fell in love with the American landscape.

Over 30 brightly painted Dala horses roam through ‘Little Sweden.’

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.