Places mikejstevenson Wants to Go

The oldest candy store in England has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.