Places alexagrace Wants to Go

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.