Places anjohnst Wants to Go

These boots are made for selfies.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.