Places Sax Russel Wants to Go

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

The history of Reykjavik told through a historical village and live actors.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."