Places brittacuming Wants to Go

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A young artist's storefront brings eldritch horrors to small-town America.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

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