Places ninewest98 Wants to Go

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

These public toilets also provide entertainment for visitors to Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

Widely advertised as Amsterdam’s narrowest street, this passage was once a highlight of the Red Light District before its windows closed.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

A relatively obscure antihero from the Marvel Comics universe adorns a wall inside Iceland's main airport.