Places nyulman Wants to Go

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

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

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.