Places ChadDr Wants to Go

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

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

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

The 19th-century hacienda house is filled with Aztec sculptures.

A museum dedicated to Wales’ favorite—and strangest-looking—watercraft.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

In this scale model, our neighboring planets are represented by metal spheres spread across an English village. The nearest stars are represented by spheres in California and Australia.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.

A detailed model of Mexico City is the star attraction within this interactive exhibit inside an old theater.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.