Places LucasLarson Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.