Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.