Places ValarieD Wants to Go

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.