Places Catexboom Wants to Go

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.