Places mrowestmiddle Wants to Go

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

A scene of a heinous act during a troubled period of Scottish history.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.