Places Sareese Wants to Go

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.