Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.