Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Restoring faith in humanity one pie at a time by selling stellar baked goods on an honor system.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

One car at a time please.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.