New York, New York
El Sabroso
This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.
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New York, New York
This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.
Atlanta, Georgia
Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
Los Angeles, California
An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.
Chicago, Illinois
Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
New York, New York
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
Washington, D.C.
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
New Orleans, Louisiana
If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?
Las Vegas, Nevada
This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.
Salem, Massachusetts
The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.