Places roguetitan Wants to Go

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

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Home to an apple tree that can produce 25 different varieties of fruit.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

One of England’s oldest and most haunted inns may have inspired the legend of Sweeney Todd.

This abstract sculpture once had a twin in Prague.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.