Places CatCanoe Wants to Go

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.