Places Fogarty Wants to Go

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.