Places Shiv Wants to Go

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A museum of broadcasting with an array of vintage equipment and its own active transmitter.

As Ernest Hemingway scribbled notes for stories, he left a lasting impression on this bar: a charred hole where he extinguished his cigars.

A bronze fountain celebrating a strange, seductive, long-breasted, motherly creature from regional folklore.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

Line up for a hickory-smoked BBQ bologna sandwich at this family-run institution.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.