Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

A piece of baseball history is preserved in a Pittsburgh parking lot.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

The remains of the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in North America.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."