Places Thomas Harper Wants to Go

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is topped with a stone tower and haunting burial mounds.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The magic's in the hole!

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.