Places Ryshili Wants to Go

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.