Places sirjackstephens Wants to Go

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.