Places plumcot Wants to Go

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Terrapins of all colors and shapes are quick to bring fascination (and possibly long life) at this museum.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.