Places bethanyherron Wants to Go

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.