Places Jon Allen Wants to Go

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.