Places groteregimbal Wants to Go

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

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

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

New York's oldest magic store.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.