Places mchaffin Wants to Go

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

A hike outside of the town of Zuun Mod will take visitors to a monastery complex steeped in Mongolian history.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

The iconic blonde bombshell has a familial connection to this town in southern Norway.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.