Places FloraArg Wants to Go

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

You can still shop in one of West Virginia’s oldest stores.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.