Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.