Places Lauren Young Wants to Go

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.