Places brooklynab Wants to Go

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

The ruins of the second-largest circus school in the world.

A pre-Hispanic pyramid in the middle of a tourist district in the Canary Islands.

These ungulates have quite literally bounced back from the brink of extinction.

A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.

The spectacular geological formations make it one of the most impressive caves in Europe.

These wooden balconies that are both decorative and functional.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

A house covered entirely with shells.

An outsider folly near Madrid.

A 12th century church completely covered in shells.

An uninhabited village that preserves and documents rural architecture and an endangered way of life.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.