Places Michael K Wants to Go

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A free park where visitors can learn about and collect 440 million-year-old fossils.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.