Places pgilder12 Wants to Go

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The last surviving video rental shop in Tallahassee doubles as a cult cinema and community hub.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

An underground city of salt.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.