Places thelordwinter Wants to Go

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.