Places Andy Fowler Wants to Go

One of the oldest continually operated libraries in Kansas.

Home to a monument dedicated to the American Rock duo along with a collection of music memorabilia.

A rare example of a rural school in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

The Conduit Road Schoolhouse is one of the last one-room schoolhouses remaining in Washington, D.C.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

This pair of centuries-old magnolia trees was once struck by a Babe Ruth home run.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

On land once deemed “valueless,” a multipurpose community garden proves the potential of urban farming.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.