Places SydCrowMA Wants to Go

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.