Places Lonecourier Wants to Go

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.