Places nyjzane Wants to Go

This convenience store-turned-brewpub serves up inventive Indian cuisine and a wide selection of beers.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

A tribute to a great Texas blues musician.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.