Places babewithclaws Wants to Go

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

A whimsical museum dedicated to the mischievous kappa, a mythical cucumber-loving water sprite.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

The strange “kaiju” of Lake Imba that allegedly killed over a dozen men with a single strike of lightning.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

This tiny Swedish troll protects the land and all who wander within it.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.