Places StrangeLizzzy Wants to Go

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.