Places shawtish Wants to Go

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This family-run roadside motel is an ode to the mid-century motor era.

At this historic Huntington diner, a century of stories hovers over every booth.

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.