Places ChadDr Wants to Go

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A local prank turned town icon.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

A series of smile-themed sculptures created by artists from all over the world fill this Tokyo shopping district.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

The only Buddhist temple in Japan dedicated to breasts.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.