Places Renée Wants to Go

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

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.