Places A Bear Wants to Go

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

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

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.