Places bananachan Wants to Go

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.