Places mistoran Wants to Go

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

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

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

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

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.