Places kkthemook Wants to Go

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

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.