Places asdonkar Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!