Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.