Places Antlerpunch Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Become a prohibition rebel.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.