Places HootEye Wants to Go

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

Bizarre Cavern.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.