Places claireromama Wants to Go

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

These gardens whisk you away to Japan and Morocco—without leaving Bordeaux.

A tribute to a great Texas blues musician.

A river hides a charming medieval bridge.

These public toilets also provide entertainment for visitors to Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

Roma who struck it rich in the 1980s built extravagant mansions in this small Romanian town.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

Abraham Lincoln never visited Wabash, but his statue found a home there.

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

Colorado’s second largest natural lake was created by a landslide.

The last family-owned, single-screen moviehouse in La La Land.

A Christian pilgrimage site that may have also been a temple for the Greek goddess of love.

A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

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

First opened in 1939, this legendary performance venue was a haven for Black musicians including Ray Charles and Little Richard.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

Gas station bathrooms adorned with one of the world’s most infamous typefaces, with quotes ranging from lewd to profound.

A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.