Places amyjojacks Wants to Go

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A commemorative plaque at the door pays tribute to an "American Patriot" known for his betrayal.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.