Places Daniel McDermon Wants to Go

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

A stunning blue-green lake located in the Terskey Alatau mountain range.

This is the resting place of the meanest rooster in Cleveland, Tennessee.

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.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

Towering metal swords commemorate a 12th-century victory.

Playful installation outside a Pittsburgh art gallery might feature the world's longest historic-plaque text.

A marker commemorates a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese made to honor Andrew Jackson.

The world's longest known cave system.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

This recipe is set in stone.

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.