Places eapya Wants to Go

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.