Places Schiffty5 Wants to Go

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

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