Places katarina Wants to Go

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

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

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.