Places aeholmquist Wants to Go

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Perfume museum and library.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.