Places cupmallows Wants to Go

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

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