Places metaranha Wants to Go

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

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

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

A commemorative plaque at the door pays tribute to an "American Patriot" known for his betrayal.

Likely the first car with an internal combustion engine constructed in the United Kingdom.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.