Places vote4j Wants to Go

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

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

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.