Places Tometheus Wants to Go

Over 120 years ago, the original boardgame that inspired Monopoly was invented in this small Illinois town.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.

Legend holds that a tortoise turned itself into this island to save two shipwrecked sailors.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

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

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A burial site located in the middle of a road.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.