Places MisterW Wants to Go

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.