Places SL Wants to Go

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.