Places WhimsyCat03 Wants to Go

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A historic canal winds through a unique, swampy landscape.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Final remnants of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories