Places melf1987 Wants to Go

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

A micronation of epic proportions.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

A spectacular impact crater in the rugged heart of Central Australia.

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.