Places Jane August Wants to Go

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

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

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

A former factory now pays tribute to a local industry fueled by sardines.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

This sprawling art park is filled with sculptures, nature trails, and art workshops.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.