Places minimeredith Wants to Go

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

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

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.