Places Celia Wants to Go

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

An underground city of salt.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

Final resting place of one of Africa's most famous conservationists, murdered by bandits.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.