Places mariaricks98 Wants to Go

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

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 abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.