Places Elizabeats Wants to Go

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

This vintage weapons display would be the perfect place for bibliophiles to hold out in a zombie apocalypse.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

This ancient sword lay in a waterlogged tomb for 2,500 years, but managed to remain relatively untarnished and impressively sharp.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.