Places mikswockam Wants to Go

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

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

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Beneath unsuspecting visitors feet, a capsule containing pieces of America’s civil rights history.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Complex tile installations designed by a renowned Polish artist in a Warsaw subway.

This 40-meter waterfall of light graces one of the most iconic stations in the Madrid metro network.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

A meticulously restored Wichita home designed by the most renowned American architect of the 20th century.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.