Places May527 Wants to Go

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

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.