Places caylascuriouser Wants to Go

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Underwater art project will double as a massive artificial coral reef to help regenerate the damaged ecosystem.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.