Places epollard Wants to Go

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.

The farmhouse where a reclusive sculptor and printmaker created thousands of works.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.