Places ginarose Wants to Go

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.