Places Funny Wants to Go

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

Believed to be the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Find your state fair food favorites all year long.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.