Places dearestfreshness Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.