Places cmholmes Wants to Go

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.