Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

On special occasions, one of the world's tallest artificial waterfalls gushes down the side of this Chinese skyscraper.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

These particularly resplendent rodents are the state animal of Maharashtra.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

A working farm turned into a museum dedicated to the world's most unbelievably tiny cars.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.