Places robertfernst Wants to Go

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.