Places Candyfromstrangers Wants to Go

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Where hikers on the Tecumseh Trail can exchange a dirty sock for a free geode.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.