Places Dr Leia Wants to Go

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

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.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.