Places HistoricHipster Wants to Go

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

Estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, this yew may be Britain’s oldest.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Beautiful Victorian mansion on Cardiff's outskirts was once the family home of a South Wales coal mining dynasty.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

In a resort town where the real Alice spent her summer holidays, iconic characters create a curious trail.