Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.