Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

A unique exhibit lets blind people experience famous works of art and architecture with their hands.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

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

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

Robot jockeys ride their humped mounts to victory as part of a 21st-century twist on an ancient desert sport.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.