Places GrantL Wants to Go

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.