Places SeeingCoolPlaces Wants to Go

A burial ground restored by a determined Boy Scout, where fragments of America’s early history rest beneath weathered stones.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Indiana’s oldest brick building was home to America's shortest-serving president.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

In Indiana's first capital city of Corydon, the original State Capitol still stands among other historic buildings.

Indiana's first constitution was drafted in the shade of this elm tree in the summer of 1816.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

The decaying remains of a ship whose captain mysteriously disappeared.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Over 60 species of birds inhabit this colorful aviary park in South Africa.