Places anneobrien Wants to Go

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.