Places gingersnap80 Wants to Go

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Like something out of a pulp adventure, this abandoned plane wreck is slowly being retaken by the Caribbean jungle.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

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.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.