Places thenavigatrix Wants to Go

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

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

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.