Places roadtriptammy Wants to Go

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.