Places flblom Wants to Go

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

An old wool-washing house filled with Fluxus contemporary art.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.