Places Maddisonrosie Wants to Go

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.