Places risapeace1 Wants to Go

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Definitely not a clown bar.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A diorama lover's dream world.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.