Places Undefined Reading Wants to Go

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

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.