Places samanthahale Wants to Go

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

An idyllic hotel that gave its name to a supposed shadow government.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.