Places Funny Wants to Go

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.