Places Jody Amable Wants to Go

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.