Places Michael K Wants to Go

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

The only female equestrian statue in Washington, D.C. is a 15th-century French heroine.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

What better place to take a seat?

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.