Places doubleplusungood Wants to Go

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.