Places acrig Wants to Go

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

One of the world’s largest suspended aquariums, located in Dubai Mall.

The old Workhouse in Ripon was the last resort for the poor of the district from 1834 until the birth of the British welfare state in the mid 20th century. It is now a poignant museum reminding us of the harshness of the Victorian poor law regime.

Montana’s first and only Alpine coaster.

A derelict hunting lodge that was once the site of aristocratic debauchery.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

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

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

its a 480 Meter tunnel on a public bridal way which is currently unlit so take a torch even in the day

The hauntingly beautiful interior of a church almost destroyed by protestors’ fire.

What was once an ordinary pedestrian tunnel under Gorizia Castle has been transformed into an immersive artistic experience.

An interesting tombstone is set into the side of the oldest brick structure in Northern Europe.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

The bell of HMS Hood is rung every Sunday at this ship-themed church.