Places pattyannish Wants to Go

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.