Places prairiequeer Wants to Go

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

The world's only known button museum.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.