Places Edited by Michelle Enemark

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

Where giant ships go to die.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.