Places Squiddity Wants to Go

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This recipe is set in stone.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.