Places claireromama Wants to Go

Unique Armenian monastery from the 13th century, reclaimed by nature but still welcoming visitors.

A marble cornerstone marks the location of what could have been a presidential palace.

This atmospheric museum honors a family who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation of Latvia.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

A celebration of Norwegian independence, or public art gone wrong?

A storied British pub where customers leave messages in the walls.

A tribute to the riders who bridged East and West.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.