Places Michael K Wants to Go

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Site of a tragedy on the Oregon Trail.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.