Places apansky Wants to Go

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.