Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.