Places thepencilburner Wants to Go

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.