Places lilbird Wants to Go

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

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

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

This religious site features Nepal’s largest statue of Buddha.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.