Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain's own legendary version of "Romeo and Juliet."

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

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A former factory hosts an amazing collection of Mexican marionettes.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

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

This overgrown Victorian chapel made of corrugated metal looks utterly out of place.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.