Places shivalilaa Wants to Go

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Florida's first Dark Sky Park is a haven for wildlife and stargazers.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A Gilded Age hotel turned eclectic museum of Tiffany glass and curiosities

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This historic eatery pays tribute to the building’s earliest roots as a hardware store.

Time travel back to Florida's abundant cattle era.