Places mfayesimon Wants to Go

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.