Places Scott Klinger Wants to Go

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Interact with jury-selected works of art at this Gulf Coast underwater museum.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Outsider Art Community.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.