Places saraeileen Wants to Go

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

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

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Make it an offering.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.