Places leedacopley Wants to Go

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

The ruins of a hermitage constructed during the 12th century.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.