Places jennybento Wants to Go

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.