Places amiedd Wants to Go

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.