Places canlarue Wants to Go

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.