Places stickysugar Wants to Go

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.