Places katemonkey Wants to Go

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.