Places Xavier Wants to Go

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.