Places madeleinelogan Wants to Go

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

Forgotten for decades, the first medical school built in Communist China is full of surprises today.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.