Places penn825 Wants to Go

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.