Places dearcy Wants to Go

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

This medieval mountain town is also known as the "Village of Streams."

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

Restoring faith in humanity one pie at a time by selling stellar baked goods on an honor system.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.