Places Kris Wants to Go

The last remaining 19th-century mile marker along the historic Ocean Parkway.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

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

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

According to legend, King Arthur killed a beast that dwelled beneath the waters of this Welsh lake.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.