Places monkeyonmybackfilms Wants to Go

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.