Battle Creek, Michigan
Dr. J.H. Kellogg Discovery Center
The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tucson, Arizona
San Pedro Chapel
This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.
Tucson, Arizona
Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum
An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.
Tucson, Arizona
University of Arizona Mathematical Models Collection
A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.
Tucson, Arizona
Ignite Sign Art Museum
This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.
Tucson, Arizona
Mat Bevel's Museum of Kinetic Art & Surrealistic Pop Science Theater
A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.
Tucson, Arizona
Rattlesnake Bridge
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Tucson, Arizona
El Charro Cafe
One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.
Tucson, Arizona
Casa Goofy International
This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
P.T. Barnum Museum
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Salem, New Hampshire
Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
New York, New York
African Elephants Diorama
This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.
New York, New York
West Terrace at the Cloisters
This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.
New York, New York
George Glazer Gallery
Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.
New York, New York
5 Beekman Street
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
Explorers Club Headquarters
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Castleton, Vermont
Taconic Mountain Ramble Zen Gardens
This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.
Shelburne, Vermont
Shelburne Museum
Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.
Glover, Vermont
Bread and Puppet Museum and Theater
Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.
South Hero, Vermont
Miniature Castles of South Hero
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
Shelburne, Vermont
Shelburne Farms
A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.
Danville, Vermont
The Forgotten Village at Greenbank's Hollow
Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.
