Places anjohnst Wants to Go

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

The magic's in the hole!

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.