Places Saradactyl Wants to Go

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.