Places zydeko Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.