Places Gillian Wants to Go

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.