Places oddfigg Wants to Go

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

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

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.