Places Jess the Mess Wants to Go

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.