Places Michael K Wants to Go

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A monolith replica monument of Jean Ribault commemorating the landing of the French in the New World.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.