Places jddennis Wants to Go

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.