Places Olivemaniac Wants to Go

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

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This abandoned fortress still stands guard over the Guadiana River despite a history of warfare.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.