Places anncarver50 Wants to Go

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

A very special collection of some of the rarest and most beautiful guitars.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

A museum showcasing the life of "Buffalo Bill"

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

The last location where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played before their tragic deaths.