Places reneesoto Wants to Go

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

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.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

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."

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.