Places thefroghag Wants to Go

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

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

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.