Places anjohnst Wants to Go

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

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

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

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Art and a pun, all in one.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.