Places graypudding Wants to Go

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

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

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.