Places Gary Saum Wants to Go

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.