Places anjohnst Wants to Go

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The world's only known button museum.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

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

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.