Places vigorouschicken79 Wants to Go

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

This giant fiberglass sunfish welcomes visitors to Onalaska, Wisconsin, the "Sunfish Capital of the World."

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

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

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Comprised of Spanish war cannons, this sculpture once graced the bow of a WWI warship.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.