Places Edited by Jason Michael Walker

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

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

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.