Places lavenderlover Wants to Go

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.