Places Sommer Mathis Wants to Go

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.