Places ecseibel Wants to Go

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

World's largest Christmas store.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This dollhouse-sized art museum features creations from local artists.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A big museum full of little worlds.