Places snailhugs Wants to Go

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.