Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

A family-owned and operated cultural center, Native food stand, and store offering a taste of local Indigenous history.

A Native American man plays a courting flute to woo his love to come and join him.

A wonderfully awkward plastic statue of Hollywood's first mayor that no one can quite explain.

A tiny historic cemetery located in the parking lot of a shopping complex.

A place like gnome other.

It stands tall, honoring the town’s nickname of Ballad Town USA, while paying tribute to the city’s rich history of barbershop quartet singing.

Current hiking trail which includes the path Benedict Arnold followed before his treason was discovered.

Reachable only by foot, the ruins of the 1800s pump house and dam that supplied water to Durham, North Carolina, until 1927 sit by the scenic Eno River.

St. John's Episcopal Church is one of seven remaining churches with a complete collection of Tiffany Windows.

An illuminating look at Fernandina Beach’s industrial past at a one-time train depot.

A working art museum inside a psychiatric center where patients create and exhibit paintings, sculptures, installations, and even recorded music in their own studios.

The courageous and fierce American general is interred inside a granite and bronze sarcophagus at the base of his statue.

An ice cream man statue that featured in the opening credits of the “Parks and Recreation” TV show.

Themed gardens, a conservatory, and a rose named for Milton Hershey, all overlooking Hersheypark.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.