Places theicarusfish Wants to Go

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

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

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.