Places trtash Wants to Go

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

The first American axe throwing club.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

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