Places Kanashii Wants to Go

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

An underwater city for the dead.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.