Places snailhugs Wants to Go

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.