Places mattalf Wants to Go

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.