Places wednesday Wants to Go

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

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.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.