Places Maddy Wants to Go

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.