Places KJMcLean Wants to Go

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

A small graveyard is hidden in the midst of a bustling university campus.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The loneliest island in New York.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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