Places aparey Wants to Go

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

This 30,000 square-foot museum is home to an extensive collection of art and artifacts that reflect the history of southwest Ohio.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.