Places arielgrace Wants to Go

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.