Places behindthegossip Wants to Go

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

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

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

Keep your eyes out for this "ghost" and walking pun.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

An art gallery/gift shop that feels like Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, and Jim Henson combined!

In a city famous for its cemeteries, it's no wonder these are easy to overlook—they clock in at just a few inches tall.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.