Places snailhugs Wants to Go

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

A military vehicle collection, showcasing how war transportation advanced from horse drawn artillery to self propelled cannons.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.