Places ValarieD Wants to Go

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Writers such as Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett frequented this Tangier bookstore.

A three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantation.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

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