Places Jill13 Wants to Go

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

One of the city's oldest pubs displays a skull said to belong to the country's last witch burned at the stake.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

A giant piece of cutlery designed to remind us about the origins of our food.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.