Places cnnorfrench Wants to Go

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A scalable map of Colombia with the bonus of a butterfly house.

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

America's oldest drive-in movie theater has been in continuous operation since 1934.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

The final resting place of one of the first alleged vampires.

The final resting place of a young stagecoach robber who refused mercy.

These fascinating 19th-century tombs in the center of Pune belong to Europeans who lived in the city in that era.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.