Places AaronNetsky Wants to Go

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

A historic hotel library in Indiana hides more than a few secrets on its shelves.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.