Places Mishmash Wants to Go

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Become a prohibition rebel.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

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

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

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

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

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

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.