Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

An ode to this small town's big film history.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

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 London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.