Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

An oddity shop inspired by the history of the circus.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

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

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.