Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

One-layer pyramid in Indiana.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.