Places hristotak Wants to Go

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

A local prank turned town icon.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.