Places onoma Wants to Go

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

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

Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

One of the largest collections of carriages, buggies, and wagons in the world.

The little house that stood up to a disastrous flood has become a symbol of perseverance.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

A tidal bore with its own festival.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

New Brunswick's tallest mountain is the highest point in all the Maritimes.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.