Places Rescaper Wants to Go

This cheeky restaurant has a serious devotion to lard sculptures.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.