Places Wormfood Wants to Go

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

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

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.