Places Twigs Wants to Go

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

A replica of fossils believed to be the first scientifically-described dinosaur bones found in North America.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.