Places Kanashii Wants to Go

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Nature's slip and slide.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.