Places doubleplusungood Wants to Go

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A science teacher's dream.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.