Places smcrific Wants to Go

This museum is a music lover's introduction to the iconic venue.

This humble American Craftsman home is where the Disney brothers’ animation business took flight in 1923.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This bridge was constructed from the remains of the first Ferris wheel.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.