Places Dana Wants to Go

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.