Places Miltones Wants to Go

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.