Places Marina Wang Wants to Go

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This seaside museum boasts a colorful collection of over 3,000 shells, the largest in Taiwan.

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.