Places mydevnull Wants to Go

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.