Places emmypimms Wants to Go

Discover the taste of mold.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

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

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.