Places earthmother03 Wants to Go

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Thanks to a clever legal loophole, this mountainside wine shop sells a hybrid cuvée that's been outlawed for nearly a century.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

The home where the famous astrologer wrote some of his most telling prophecies.

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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