Places Metalmoose Wants to Go

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

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

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.