Places TaunyaD Wants to Go

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest magic store.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.