Places sheinsis Wants to Go

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

One of the oldest of its kind.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

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

Skewer up Kangaroo.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Set sail on a small scale.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.