Places doubleplusungood Wants to Go

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.