Places erockalypse Wants to Go

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.