Prague, Czechia
Speculum Alchemiae
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Reykjavik, Iceland
The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Heraklion, Greece
A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Argolis, Greece
This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.
Moenjodaro, Pakistan
This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, France
Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.
Roskilde, Denmark
Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Beaufort, North Carolina
A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
Rouen, France
Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Kastrup, Denmark
Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.
Bíldudalur, Iceland
The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Matamata, New Zealand
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.