Places akargus Wants to Go

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This college campus garden is home to generations of award winning flowers.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

A wonderful world of rare fruits and flowering trees grows in a small botanical park in Bradenton.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Chef Lisa Nelson serves up sensational doubles, jerk chicken, and other Trinidadian staples.

Fully ignoring any conventions of fine dining, chef Peter Vazquez turns out some of the best meals in the city in takeaway containers.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.