Places mjh Wants to Go

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

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

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.