Places rachelelizabethmaher Wants to Go

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.