Places Jess the Mess Wants to Go

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

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

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.