Places samireland Wants to Go

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.