Places Ryshili Wants to Go

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

America's first public mental health facility.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This is one really big nut.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

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

One man's lifelong obsession with death.