Places sweetcandee00 Wants to Go

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.