Places empace Wants to Go

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

An authentic recreation of a 19th-century museum for "working class folks."

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

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

The picturesque southern city served as the zombie-filled town of Woodbury in 'The Walking Dead.'

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.

Like Mars, but much closer.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.