Places adamquiros Wants to Go

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A museum dedicated to all things vinegar in rural South Dakota.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A centuries-old stone pagoda from Japan stands among cherry trees beside the National Mall Tidal Basin.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

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

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.