Places mechanik Wants to Go

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.