Places vijayhm Wants to Go

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

Feast on kebabs, dips, and house-made breads in the heart of Nashville’s Little Kurdistan.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.