Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.