Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.