Places suehle Wants to Go

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.