Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

This century-old museum showcases New Mexico’s history through arts and crafts.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.