Places dollyeyedmoth Wants to Go

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

This 12-seat movie theater is the smallest in the world.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Designed to celebrate the queen's 40th birthday.

An oddity shop inspired by the history of the circus.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

Britain's oldest permanent theatre designed and built for puppets.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

A comfortable-looking armchair and a grandfather clock have been sitting on this sidewalk for the last 30 years.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A train car sitting on a rooftop makes an unlikely and picturesque setting for dinner.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

The birthplace of the titular coat and related products celebrates its claim to fame with a statue of a coat.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Definitely not a clown bar.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.