Places catseaver Wants to Go

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.