Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.