Places VRLNDR Wants to Go

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Outsider Art Community.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge and take flight at sundown all summer long.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

The "Father of Arizona" tried to build a Zoroastrian fire temple on the hill where he's now buried.

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.