Places shatomica Wants to Go

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

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

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.