Places petracca5 Wants to Go

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."