Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

Beautiful scenery provides the backdrop for an abandoned coastguard facility.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

Named after a 6th-century saint, who was also a scholar.

A single oak tree rises out of the waters of Loch Lomond.

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.