Traverse City, Michigan
Old Mission General Store
Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.
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Traverse City, Michigan
Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.
Cross Village, Michigan
Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.
Port Huron, Michigan
Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.
Shelby, Michigan
A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.
Boyne City, Michigan
Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.
St. Ignace, Michigan
Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.
Charlevoix, Michigan
In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.
Traverse City, Michigan
An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.
Knoxville, Tennessee
This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
San Francisco, California
An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.
Cartersville, Georgia
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Trenton, New Jersey
The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.
Trenton, New Jersey
This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.
Boston, Massachusetts
America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.
Boston, Massachusetts
This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.