Places Traci Wants to Go

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

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

New York's oldest magic store.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."