Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

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

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

The world's longest known cave system.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".