Places izzyturtle Wants to Go

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A science teacher's dream.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.