Places Urlak Wants to Go

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.