Places ChadDr Wants to Go

A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

An urban laboratory.

A Viking-themed bar in a canal town for those retreating from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.