Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

This bright and bubbly Palm Springs hotel was the brainchild of an iconic drag queen.

This 400-year-old noodle joint was once frequented by a fox-turned-monk, according to local folklore.

An ancient mineral hot spring sits at the middle of this combination cultural center and spa.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A fantastical glow-in-the-dark mural inspired by the city’s most famous writer, Kenji Miyazawa.

Visit a remnant California's Gold Rush, which locals claim is haunted by spirits from the past.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

This abandoned park is home to hundreds of stone statues ranging from humans to mystical beings.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

A 20,000-year-old fossilized forest is preserved at this unique museum.

An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

A quartet of temple guardian statues that allegedly cry at night for being forbidden from wrestling.

A collection of whimsical metal sculptures scattered along a forest path.

See the oldest known traditional stone-ground mustard mill at work at this Down East mainstay.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.