Places CatrinObscura Wants to Go

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

This site is where Lewis and Clark met and formed the Corp of Discovery with a few local men.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

These modest Midwestern formations are kin to Niagara Falls' impressive cliffs, more than 600 miles away.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

A library room filled with Twain’s relics, and a recovered literary treasure.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.