Places randi297 Wants to Go

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Make a joyful noise with these contrabass chimes.

Whimsical cartoon cars suspended on posts soar over an automotive shop.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

One of the stops along the fateful journey of the Donner Party.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

A delightful Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale experience, not far off the interstate.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

Among the cornfields stands a giant spider crafted from an old Volkswagen.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.