Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

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

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."