Places awfulcat Wants to Go

Prank calls to this place, originally the "Tube Bar," inspired the creation of a Simpsons character.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.