Places VRLNDR Wants to Go

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.