Places thisismolly Wants to Go

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.