Places lilbird Wants to Go

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

An amazing collection of curiosities hidden in a small Welsh village.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

This hidden Sufi cemetery is a spiritual monument for India's third gender community.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

A system of constructed rapids and concrete waterfalls in a linear park on the Slepnya River.