Places thenavigatrix Wants to Go

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.