Places sparkleybits Wants to Go

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.