Places inthenavey Wants to Go

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

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

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.