Places brianajreidy Wants to Go

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The loneliest island in New York.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.