Places posturethecat Wants to Go

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The world's only known button museum.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.