Places ValarieD Wants to Go

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

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

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.