Places S Martin Wants to Go

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

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

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

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

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.