Places AbsyntheKC Wants to Go

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.