Places Jesse Wants to Go

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This remote, abandoned Soviet observatory promises spectacular views for those who can reach it.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.