Places thepencilburner Wants to Go

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.