Places Hermit Wants to Go

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.