Places jcan58 Wants to Go

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

West African flavors shine at this unassuming strip mall spot in southwest Houston.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.