Places jimaenderle Wants to Go

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The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A self-proclaimed infidel who had no hope of heaven nor fear of hell, Towell was free of superstition.

A cheeky tribute to a comedy legend.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

Just off I-55 in McLean, Illinois, is a place where you can play over 100 arcade and pinball machines for 25-75 cents a pop.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."