Places bridgetcool Wants to Go

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Here be dragons.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

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

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Since 2017, the remains of Stretford's industrial past have been occupied by a collection of gnomes.