Places SydCrowMA Wants to Go

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Bizarre Cavern.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."