Places lilbird Wants to Go

A boiling wellspring flowing with natural gas burns in a continual blaze.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

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

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.