Places emazmagic Wants to Go

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This small museum holds a treasure trove of ceramic figures that are either a hoax or proof of dragons, aliens, and dinosaur riders.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.