Places Vic Tanner Wants to Go

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

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

When construction began on this hotel, developers were surprised to find the ruins of an ancient civilization.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.