Places marytreptow Wants to Go

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The magic's in the hole!

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.