Places jlphillips Wants to Go

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.