Places Sjpolzin Wants to Go

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A hidden pet cemetery honors the generations of canine companions from one of Pittsburgh's most famous estates.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

An ode to iconic Nashville locations.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.