Places amkbrenner Wants to Go

Sambusas get a Deep Southern twist at this Somali chai haven.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

Feast on Caribbean classics from curry goat to black cake.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

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

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.