Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

Step into the courtroom to learn details of the only case in history where ghostly testimony led to a murderer's conviction.

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

One of the most popular brands of glass among collectors, the story of the A.H. Heisey & Company glassmaker is told in this Newark museum.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

The second largest monolith in the world was once betrayed by its lover, Ben Aicha.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

A community-owned museum that celebrates the history of the shipbuilding industry in this part of Nova Scotia.

This non-binary preacher formed a religious movement in the region of New York later known as the “Burned-Over District.”

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

Colorado's oldest church is now home to the largest handmade adobe labyrinth in the world.

Originally commissioned as a sculpture to reflect the history of Belfast's red-light district, the final sculpture has been banned from Belfast public land.