Places ValarieD Wants to Go

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A mystical-meets-modern mix of centuries-old divination decks and Pokémon cards ready to predict your destiny.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

Tune into an alternate universe at this immersive art installation.

Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.