Places AaronNetsky Wants to Go

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

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

Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.