Places darrelmw Wants to Go

The oldest soda fountain in St. Louis has been serving up treats for more than a century.

The menus here are a love letter to the culinary history of New Orleans.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

This non-profit restaurant offers job training and skills to members of the Central City community.

These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

A remote field of nearly pristine sand dunes in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

Large metal sculptures spread throughout an open landscape.

This extraordinary project brings water from the Colorado River to Southern California.

Curated collection of classic cars restored to immaculate condition.

Larger-than-life cut-out murals of James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, dedicated to their 1956 film ‘Giant.’

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

A comprehensive archive of Hallmark Holiday ornaments.

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

This swanky speakeasy is Denver’s oldest bar—and hasn’t changed a bit since 1933.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

A unique auditory experience right on the sidewalk.

A mural and a few historical markers commemorate Denver's once-thriving Chinatown, which was obliterated in a racist riot.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

This stunning, technicolor array of geysers has occupied Ferril lake since 1908.

Soak in the life’s work of one of the country’s foremost modern artists.

Remnants of a forgotten ballpark where legend and infamy intersect.