Places MayaSeeMayaDo Wants to Go

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

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

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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

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