Places nyulman Wants to Go

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.