Places EricaInCA Wants to Go

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.