Places rachael1006 Wants to Go

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.