Places Nekoswan Wants to Go

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.