Places catlightly Wants to Go

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.