Places Cindy Cesare Wants to Go

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

In a forgotten Central Valley industrial park lies the busiest railroad junction in California.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.