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Stardust Sign, August 2025

Las Vegas, Nevada

The Neon Museum

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Alexandria, Egypt

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

Old Slave Mart

Charleston, South Carolina

Old Slave Mart

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A popular meeting place, Smith Drug Co. became a hotbed for the Civil Rights Movement in Hattiesburg.

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Smith Drug Co.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

The Lucky Rabbit entrance

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Lucky Rabbit

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

The Coney Island Cafe opened in 1923 and has become a legendary locale in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Permanently Closed

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Coney Island Cafe

This down-home diner has been serving up comfort foods for over 100 years.

Hattiesburg Pocket Museum

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Hattiesburg Pocket Museum

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

Walter Anderson Museum of Art

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Walter Anderson Museum of Art

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

Charnley-Norwood House

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Charnley-Norwood House

This house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

The Black Heritage Gallery is in the historic Beaux-Arts City Hall Arts & Cultural Center, now a dynamic exhibition space in Lake Charles.

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Black Heritage Gallery

This gallery dedicated to regional and emerging Black artists is housed in a historic building-turned-arts-hub.

Order the “Eye of the Tiger,” a special lemon icebox pie with a blueberry topping.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Elsie’s Plate & Pie

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

Oliver Pollock used his personal finances to support the American Revolution, and he unintentionally inspired the dollar sign.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Sculpture of Oliver Pollock

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

Wreckage of a Japanese plane.

Fredericksburg, Texas

National Museum of the Pacific War

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

Longhorn Cavern

Burnet, Texas

Longhorn Cavern

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

Sparky Park

Austin, Texas

Sparky Park

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Sustainable, sun-powered art.

Austin, Texas

Mueller SunFlowers

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

The Sign for the Old Wellington, with the Old Wellington itself in the background on the left.

Manchester, England

The Shambles

Two of Manchester’s oldest buildings were moved twice.

Bee

Manchester, England

The Manchester Bee

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Historic Reading Room

Manchester, England

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The Tree of Remembrance with pigeons roosting in it.

Manchester, England

Tree of Remembrance

One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.

Plaque showing the location of the former Trinity Church.

York, England

Kings Square Gravestones

This popular square's history as the former site of a church is right beneath your feet.

The Shambles.

York, England

Shambles of York

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Shrine of Saint Margaret Clitherow

York, England

Shrine of Saint Margaret Clitherow

A shrine to one of England's female saints in what is believed to be her former home.

The York Ghost Merchants

York, England

The York Ghost Merchants

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

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