Places nomadandwitch Wants to Go

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.