Places LisaW21 Wants to Go

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”