Places dollhauszine Wants to Go

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.