Places velellavelella Wants to Go

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

A cheeky reminder about the value of art dangles above one of Olomouc's busiest streets.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A stone face watches over the river.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.