Places shalimardebusk Wants to Go

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Like Mars, but much closer.

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

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.