Places Andrea IX Wants to Go

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

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

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.