Places miramarco Wants to Go

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

The construction of a tram line unveiled hidden remnants of the old medieval city.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.