Places AbsoluteNomad Wants to Go

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

The world's longest known cave system.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.