Places Breakfast Wants to Go

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

These murals have been brightening a Chicago beach for more than 30 years.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

During the American Revolutionary War, iron excavated from this mine was used to make swords, cannons, and more.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.