Places venuslady87 Wants to Go

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

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

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

An engraved stone in a village church claims to be the grave of a minuscule folk legend.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

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

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.