Places mkenik Wants to Go

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

On one of the tiniest islands in the Caribbean lies a nearly 300-year-old syangogue.

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

A memorial dedicated to victims of the Irish Potato Famine who perished while quarantined on this island.

This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

Location of the first public performance and singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

Ernest Hemingway used to frequent this general store, which appears in several of his short stories.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Swing by this brightly painted former cannery on the water for a crash-course in local boating history.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

The largest ongoing mosaic project in Europe.

The oldest Egyptian obelisk still standing in its original site.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.