Places Cowshow Wants to Go

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

At an altitude of 3,700 meters, this is the highest polo field in the world.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

First established in 741, this is one of the oldest Taoist temples in China.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

A collection of incredible clay crafts, complete with earthen skeletons and mermaids.

A man's curious and seriously small handmade objects from around the world.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

Soak in the soul of Kansas City at the oldest continually-operating jazz club in the country.

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

Retro as can be, this cinema still uses film reels and screens revivals of Shōwa-era hits and classics.