Places whitneyquint Wants to Go

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Dedicated to the "World's Luckiest Fishing Village."

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.