Places weyrcat Wants to Go

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

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

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This recipe is set in stone.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.