Places marissaweekend Wants to Go

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Mexican food and folk art.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.