Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

A local prank turned town icon.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.