Places clouddottir Wants to Go

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.