Places Funny Wants to Go

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

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

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Where beautiful signs live on forever.