Places Celia Wants to Go

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.

Washed out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889, the surviving portion of the original two-span bridge now resides at Fishing Creek.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Bizarre Cavern.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

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

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

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

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.