Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."