Places Added by Holyn Thigpen

This Art Deco movie palace turned performing arts center lets audiences experience the glamor of showbiz in its heyday.

A busy trail network outside Ketchum, Idaho, hides a small piece of early Forest Service history.

In Idaho’s high desert, underground water resurfaces as a remarkably rich spring-fed creek.

A windswept sandstone overlook offers sweeping views across an ancient plateau.

This family-run roadside motel is an ode to the mid-century motor era.

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

Dozens of giant mermaids are hidden across Florida’s coast in parks, yards, and beaches.

A live oak beside a Florida bike trail has become a shimmering, musical memorial.

Deep in the Richloam wilderness, a century-old country store is stocked with plenty of stories.

A 110-foot concrete dinosaur once sold fossil fuel from its belly.

This Victorian mansion is part heritage museum, part architectural oddity, and part ghost story.

A small-town Nebraska museum is home to thousands of handmade clown dolls.

At this leafy estate, one man’s passion for trees grew into Arbor Day.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

Thousands of signed dollar bills turn a simple tavern into a living record of travelers’ comings and goings.

A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.

A botanical hideaway sits inside the ruins of a half-built Civil War fort.

Part research station, part time capsule, part aquatic fever dream.

At this bayside marina, enormous wild tarpon jump out of the water to snatch fish from visitors’ hands.

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A centuries-old stone pagoda from Japan stands among cherry trees beside the National Mall Tidal Basin.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.