Places cockroach8cincy Wants to Go

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.