Places teck63 Wants to Go

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The world's largest pin (or tack) is located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, at the Transit Authority of Central Kentucky (TACK) headquarters.

This world record holding pocketknife is so large that it has to be operated by a crane.

Wander the locker-lined, terrazzo-floored halls and sleep in a former classroom at this unique inn.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

Among the cornfields stands a giant spider crafted from an old Volkswagen.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

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