Places Madbenlia Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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.

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.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.