Places joparkman Wants to Go

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Discover old-fashioned printing through hands-on exhibitions and publishing artifacts.

A brewpub dedicated to unusual artwork in Historic Downtown Panama City.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

The largest Walmart Supercenter in the United States, referred to affectionately as “Mallmart,” has served the residents of Albany, New York, since 1994.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

Pennsylvania’s creepiest roadside attraction is a haunting example of roadside kitsch.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Every Friday night, Appalachian string-bands turn this country store and soda fountain into a raucous jamboree.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.

This park transforms Montreal's industrial past into a sustainable future, with glowing spheres that capture energy from beneath your feet.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.