Places inlandempirical Wants to Go

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

This monument owes its name to a quote by the famous civil rights activist and journalist.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

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

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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