Places Gazakhstan Wants to Go

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.