Places leighadlr Wants to Go

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This Costa Rican chapel is the most metal church in the world, literally.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.