Places tweierick Wants to Go

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

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

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.