Places chartreusefreak Wants to Go

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

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

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.