Places Destination aficionado Wants to Go

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

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

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

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.