Places jameth15 Wants to Go

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

A quiet spot commemorating two naturalists who had to choose between love and the university at which they both taught.

A rescue facility that caters specifically to wolf-dog hybrids, and educates about these unique animals.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

This carved stone slab marked the grave of a local dragon slayer, who makes a killer pie.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."