Places Bathynomus Wants to Go

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A science teacher's dream.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.