Places claireromama Wants to Go

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The magic's in the hole!

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

Venice's island of the dead.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.