Places itsumojapan Wants to Go

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.