Places AmieisLove Wants to Go

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.