Places yaz999 Wants to Go

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

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

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

This museum in the tower of the oldest church in Gdańsk, is home to centuries-old time-keeping devices and the world's first pulsar clock.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

In northeastern Poland, the ruins of a massive granary overlook the Narew River.

This picturesque castle in Poland has a rich history, including a legend that ties it to lost Incan treasures.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.