Places kendallmbailey Wants to Go

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

An underwater city for the dead.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

Stay in your own little bubble.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.