Places EricaInCA Wants to Go

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.