Places Gillian Wants to Go

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.