Places goldelinemydear Wants to Go

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.