Places Madeleine Wants to Go

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.