Places apansky Wants to Go

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.