Places DeirdreJ6972 Wants to Go

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

"May the force be with you always."

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.