Places TinyFox Wants to Go

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Jack White's record store is the only place in the world that records live shows direct-to-acetate.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Examine the impact of the horse on Great Plains culture through exhibits on ranching, rodeo, and the Native American way of life.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.