Places Skankatron Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The loneliest island in New York.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.