Places DE Wants to Go

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.