Places Octomagi Wants to Go

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

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

One of Gettysburg’s least visited battlefield memorials is off the beaten path, but worth a visit.

One of the oldest surviving lock houses on the Ohio River.

These small house replicas have stood proudly since the 1950s, even as the property has changed hands.

Home to an eclectic collection of over 200 vintage motorcycles, Americana, and some of the most extraordinary antiques from all around the world.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

When oil was discovered just outside of Pittsburgh, the city became home to this regional stock market.

Beautiful views of the surrounding hills and birds of prey can be found at this sanctuary.

Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.