Places scottishrose1028 Wants to Go

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.