Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

An amazing clockwork museum in the Val de Travers holds examples of various prestigious legacies horological history.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

The museum is home to four times as many lamps as there are people in town.

This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.