Places Edited by Evan Bonham

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

The short hike is worth the stunning views and crystal blue waters of a secluded beach.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.