Places buckblaze Wants to Go

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.