Places silentcompass Wants to Go

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York's oldest magic store.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

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

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.