Places summermaddux Wants to Go

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.

Destructive children, start your engines.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.