Places lorastorm Wants to Go

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.