Places Nathan Boddy Wants to Go

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

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

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

This small piece of Michigan is entirely surrounded by Ohio.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

Featuring one of the most complete and original collections of Presidential memorabilia, this is the site of the last front porch presidential campaigns.

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.