Places carliethompsonwriting Wants to Go

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

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

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.