Places marlowharris Wants to Go

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

An oddity shop inspired by the history of the circus.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.