Places dollyeyedmoth Wants to Go

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Everything in this two-story house—down to the mounted deer head on the wall—was carefully crafted from concrete.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.