Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

A hidden wonder displaying insects large and small.

A stone in a Victorian writer’s garden is a remnant of prehistoric Britain.

This student-run nightclub was originally a World War II bomb shelter.

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.