Places owill4 Wants to Go

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

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.