Places midasblenny Wants to Go

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

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