Places magratnj Wants to Go

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

Explore the history of Mexico's lesser-known ancient alcoholic beverage.

This stunning and ethereal mural symbolizes the beauty, unity, and diversity of humankind.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.