Places SL Wants to Go

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

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

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.