Places Molly McBride Jacobson Wants to Go

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.