Places aeholmquist Wants to Go

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The first American axe throwing club.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

One of the oldest of its kind.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.