Places hapichapi Wants to Go

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An underwater city for the dead.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The last of its kind in the country.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.