Places sjohnston40 Wants to Go

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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