Places Merlucdai Wants to Go

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

The true depths of these stunning Moroccan caves are unknown.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.