Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Always a new use for this old building.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.