Places lomeranger Wants to Go

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

Once a home for cows and hay, this barn has been transformed into an event cathedral.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.