Places Catexboom Wants to Go

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.