Places jnails1 Wants to Go

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Supplies are schlepped up by llamas at this century-old inn, accessible only by hiking trails in the Great Smokies.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".