Places May527 Wants to Go

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.