Places lenayehtaylor Wants to Go

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The middle finger of modernity.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.