Places Dana Wants to Go

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.