Places Highway to Mel Wants to Go

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

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

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.