Places ejhagadorn Wants to Go

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Said to be haunted, this tower was constructed by a sugar importer as a gift to his wife.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.