Places beeparticular Wants to Go

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

Newfoundland's last remaining granite lighthouse.

This remote Moravian mission brought Christianity—as well as devastation—to the Inuit people.