Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Got apples?

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.