Places marissaweekend Wants to Go

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.