Places caraobrien Wants to Go

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.