Places jesadair Wants to Go

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The middle finger of modernity.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.