Places G Pike Wants to Go

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.