Places kaemaki Wants to Go

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.