Places lyncheart Wants to Go

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

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

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.