Places theloniusjaz Wants to Go

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

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.