Places kingstem63 Wants to Go

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."