Places lizziebelle Wants to Go

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.