Places IrishCurves Wants to Go

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.