Places Ophelia Holt Wants to Go

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.