Places piblyss Wants to Go

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

These ruins of an octagonal stone school that was later used as an A.U.M.P. church exemplify a popular school design from the 1830s.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.