Places Opinicus Wants to Go

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

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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