Places afink Wants to Go

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

This giant satellite antenna services the transmission needs of government agencies and cable programmers.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

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

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

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

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.