Places gwenw Wants to Go

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.