Places sixtwentysix Wants to Go

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.