Places Sandstorm Wants to Go

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.