Places alessandralee Wants to Go

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.