Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

This house covered in art created with volcanic rocks is shrouded in macabre lore.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

A wildlife-filled oasis just off the coast of Myrtle Beach.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

It might look like just a pile of sticks—because it is. But there's a dark history to how this stack got its start.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

This former hunting grounds that once attracted U.S. presidents and other luminaries. Now it’s a privately owned research reserve dedicated to environmental sciences.