Places Barrabelle Wants to Go

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

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

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.