Places Skuttel Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.