Places Skankatron Wants to Go

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Randy Senna's Fascination and retro arcade is home to the last Fascination game in New Jersey, and one of seven remaining as of 2021.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.