Places samireland Wants to Go

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The magic's in the hole!

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.