Places sparkleybits Wants to Go

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.