Places Joel Cusumano Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

This overlooked, beautiful convent hides an original Hieronymus Bosch among its many treasures.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.