Places julietczurda Wants to Go

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.