Places johnrzale Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

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.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

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

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.