Places cockroach8cincy Wants to Go

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

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Both funky and traditional, it's the oldest of its kind in Indiana.

Remnants of 19th century vigilante justice.