Places breeannpoland Wants to Go

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.