Places shehangsbrightly Wants to Go

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.