Places MonicaB Wants to Go

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.