Places Rachaelannmare Wants to Go

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.