Places Tometheus Wants to Go

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.