Places Henry Kuvin Wants to Go

Abandoned museum from the last days of Soviet domination, with a unique Brutalist design.

A unique Soviet mosaic preserved on the facade of a shoe factory in Lviv.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

A statue dedicated to the founders of communism.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

Take a walk through the history of strength sports—from the early Olympic Games to modern day.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

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

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.