Places Lisa De Vriese Wants to Go

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

The magic's in the hole!

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.