Places Eli PDX Wants to Go

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.