Places LouKYgreen Wants to Go

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This historic silent film-era theater is now a community playhouse with a chilling visitor.

After being abandoned for decades, Oklahoma’s first air-conditioned theatre was reborn in the new century.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.