Places Ramshackle Wants to Go

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

Inside this shop, visitors are treated to a unique blend of natural history and art.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.