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.

Latest Travel Stories

December 21, 2020

Wisconsin Oddities: Weird Winter Wonderland Edition

Explore the weird winter wonderland of Wisconsin with these true tales of a notorious frozen bigfoot, hodag encounters, a war over ice, and a frozen stonehenge.

Childhood home of presidential assassin Charles Guiteau in Wisconsin

September 1, 2020

Presidential Assassin Charles Guiteau Grew Up in this Wisconsin Ghost Town

August 15, 2020

The Haunted Attractions of Wisconsin Dells Past

June 8, 2020

Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Has Finally Been Found

April 22, 2020

5 Strange Wonders of the Natural World

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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