Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

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.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Set sail on a small scale.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A replica that won't float away.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.