Places sparkleybits Wants to Go

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

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

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.