Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.