Places jameth15 Wants to Go

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

100 years later, they're still down there.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.