Places tealeaves Wants to Go

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

For more than two centuries, this family-run establishment has been serving up some of Ireland's best oysters.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This historic pub is a hidden gem for fans of Lewis Carroll.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

A historic, reportedly haunted pub that provided inspiration for several famous adventure novels.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

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

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.