Places Jackieacosta Wants to Go

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.