Places spookyshores Wants to Go

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

The oldest soda fountain in St. Louis has been serving up treats for more than a century.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.