Places nejuum Wants to Go

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.