Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.