Places Kraken Wants to Go

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.