Places Added by Allison Meier

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.