Places Madeleine Wants to Go

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

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

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.