Atlas Obscura

Travel around the world without leaving your computer--and hit the spots most armchair travelers will miss. Atlas Obscura's goal is to catalog "all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them...

In an age where everything seems to have been explored and there is nothing new to be found, the Atlas Obscura celebrates a different way of traveling, and a different lens through which to view the world." Search by location or by "category of wonders and curiosities"--categories include Medical Museums and Small Worlds and Model Towns. Or just click on "Take me to a random place" and you might land on America's Stonehenge, in New Hampshire, or Rome's Antique Doll Hospital. Atlas Obscura welcomes and depends on reader submissions, so if you've been someplace wacky and wonderful, you can add it for others to discover.