Places denicewaters Wants to Go

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.