Places izzyturtle Wants to Go

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

An ancient temple to the Hindu god Shiva surrounded by jaw-dropping scenery.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.