Places Rachel James Wants to Go

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

“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.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.