Places sugarbomb Wants to Go

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

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

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

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The magic's in the hole!