Places caseyjacks Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.