Places afairb Wants to Go

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A modest park memorial pays tribute to one of the Titanic's most revered storylines.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.