Places claireromama Wants to Go

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

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

An allegorical statue of a giant pregnant woman representing justice and truth.

The grotto where Saint Ignatius of Loyola lived as a hermit for nearly a year.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

The Art Deco Silver Screen.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.