Places Ashley Bowen Wants to Go

America's first public mental health facility.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.