Madison, Wisconsin
Annie Stewart Memorial Fountain
A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Seattle, Washington
Fremont Troll
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
The Red Hall at Seattle’s Central Library
A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.
Chicago, Illinois
Puerto Rican Flag Sculptures
Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.
Chicago, Illinois
Merz Apothecary
An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.
Bloomington, Minnesota
The Mall of America
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spoonbridge and Cherry
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
City Salvage
An architecturally-focused antique shop.
Sparta, Wisconsin
Wegner Grotto
Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.
Sparta, Wisconsin
FAST Fiberglass Mold Graveyard
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Tillamook, Oregon
Octopus Tree of Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Haystack Rock
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Memphis, Tennessee
Isaac Hayes's Gold-Plated Cadillac
The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.
Memphis, Tennessee
National Civil Rights Museum
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Memphis, Tennessee
Sun Studio
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
San Antonio, Texas
Mission San Jose
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Jackson, New Hampshire
Mount Washington
The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.
Québec City, Québec
Château Frontenac
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
Montreal, Québec
Oratoire St. Joseph
City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.
Montreal, Québec
Biosphere of Montreal
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Montreal, Québec
Schwartz's
A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.
Montreal, Québec
Notre Dame Basilica
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Corbett, Oregon
Vista House at Crown Point
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
