Places BackAlleySally Wants to Go

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

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

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.