Places Raedar Wants to Go

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.