Places John Caulkins Wants to Go

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Orozco’s fiery mural that brought the Mexican Muralist Movement to the U.S.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.