Kansas City, Missouri
Prospero's Books
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Hanksville, Utah
At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
New York, New York
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
Tijeras, New Mexico
The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.
St. Petersburg, Florida
History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.
Richmond, Virginia
A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.
San Francisco, California
This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).
Trenton, Tennessee
The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.
Rochester, New York
The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.
Danville, Kentucky
This museum of miniature displays provides a journey through early American history.
Seattle, Washington
This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.
New York, New York
A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.
Beaufort, North Carolina
A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.
Delta, Utah
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Battle Creek, Michigan
The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
Somerset, Kentucky
The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.
Portland, Oregon
This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.
Bath Township, Michigan
A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.
Bloomington, Indiana
The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.