Places ppalkan Wants to Go

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The middle finger of modernity.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

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

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The history and future of cannabis.