Places Ian Engweiler Wants to Go

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Discover the taste of mold.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

A small museum dedicated to Vietnam’s lesser-known Iron Age culture.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.