Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.