Places scoub Wants to Go

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The southernmost postal office in South America.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.