Places SarahTheExplorer Wants to Go

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The first woman in America to receive a medical degree.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

See how Laura Ingalls lived on the Minnesota prairie.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

A slope with a mysterious name recalls a discontinued pre-war energy drink.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

This South-by-South-Asian restaurant serves up Indian-spiced Southern fried chicken and a Desi-style pastrami.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

Destructive children, start your engines.

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Two Indiana icons are honored at this tiny museum, which features the world's largest collection of James Dean memorabilia.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

A mid-century telephone booth still stands, now a long-distance relic of the past.