Places tlphillipson Wants to Go

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.