Places mike boyle Wants to Go

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Iron Butterfly's personal collection of footwear.