Places alyssachester Wants to Go

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Orcas on display and in the water.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

The capital of Cambodia is named after the hill on which this ancient temple complex stands.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.