Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.