Places BeKa211 Wants to Go

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.