Places scoub Wants to Go

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A vertical tube that allows you to see what's going on underneath the Antarctic sea ice.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

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

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.