Places thecrypttrip Wants to Go

An open-air "garden" of mural art that changes weekly.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.