Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

These "bridges" help confused bats cross the road.

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.