Places escapementality Wants to Go

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

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

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.