Places Celia Wants to Go

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A decorated war pigeon stands guard in eternal taxidermied rest at his alma mater.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.