Wallace, Idaho
Center of the Universe Manhole
The mayor made the declaration in 2004.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Wallace, Idaho
The mayor made the declaration in 2004.
Boise, Idaho
A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Idaho City, Idaho
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Shirley, Massachusetts
The head of a legendary creature allegedly killed during colonial times is now on display at a local restaurant.
Salem, Massachusetts
Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A tiny monument to the classic American candy.
Boston, Massachusetts
Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.
Newbury, New Hampshire
A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.
Rikuzentakata-shi, Japan
A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.
Magdeburg, Germany
This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.