Places claireromama Wants to Go

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

A nondescript building is home to a one-room museum filled with an overwhelming array of art and objects.

One man's love affair with this Mediterranean country has been turned into a work of whimsical delight.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

Despite the name, this 16th-century structure in Galway wasn't built by the Spanish.

On the grounds of a game lodge, a path decorated with the skulls of all kinds of animals.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.

The mysterious “eyes of the Devil” dot a street in the occult center of Italy.

In a city famous for its cemeteries, it's no wonder these are easy to overlook—they clock in at just a few inches tall.

A former church transformed into a public library.

This replica of the Statue of Liberty is a quarter of the size of the real thing. It sits on the same latitude as the original, but on the other side of the world.

This century-old, single-screen cinema still puts a 1937 Compton organ to good use.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

This statue in Civitavecchia recreates a famous photograph from the end of World War II in massive scale.

Another statue of Japan's most famous dog stands in his hometown.

On a rural farm road in Western Australia, a full-size, electrified police call box with a big surprise inside.

One of the biggest islands in the River Po is a protected nature reserve, reachable only by a seasonal ford rich with endemic fauna, fossils, and late 19th-century buildings.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.