Places sfrench815 Wants to Go

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

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

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.