Places jimvmurray Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.