Places ericaland Wants to Go

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

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

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.