Places tremperj Wants to Go

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

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

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.