Places dorcasdesign Wants to Go

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.