Strange Destinations: Weird Travel Guide for Dark Tourists

Do you like death and travel? This is your travel guide to the mysterious and unknown. Whether you’re looking for your next dark tourism destination or plotting an adventure to a curious and quirky roadside attraction, explore some of the strangest places in the world.

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February 1, 2022

American Gods and the House on the Rock

Inside the phantasmagorical attraction known as House on the Rock, where the Old Gods meet in American Gods season 2.

Childhood home of presidential assassin Charles Guiteau in Wisconsin

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House on the Rock

The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin is a curious, often nightmarish shrine to human ingenuity, imagination and obsession.

Point Pleasant Roadtrip

If you’re hoping to encounter Mothman, West Virginia is the place to start. Take a roadtrip into Mothman country where the legend was born with these 6 things to do in Point Pleasant.

Woolly Mammoth Oddities

Every visit to Woolly Mammoth in Chicago is an adventure. Find everything from skulls and taxidermy to haunted objects, vintage toys and other weird collectibles.

Remains of world's first nuclear reactor in Chicago's Red Gate Woods

Radioactive Park

The radioactive remains of the world’s first nuclear reactor, left behind from the early Manhattan Project experiments to create the atomic bomb, are buried beneath this Chicago park.

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