Places amaranthine Wants to Go

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The loneliest island in New York.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

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